Little happened until the beginning of 1886, but with the re-election of Jules Grévy as President and his appointment of Edouard Lockroy as Minister for Trade decisions began to be made.

In 1882 he began a connection with West Africa which lasted the rest of his life, by accepting the chairmanship of the National African Company, formed by Sir George Goldie, which in 1886 received a charter under the title of the Royal Niger Company and in 1899 was taken over by the British government, its territories being constituted the protectorate of Nigeria.

In 1885, Zamenhof graduated from a university and began his practice as a doctor in Veisiejai and after 1886 as an ophthalmologist in Płock and Vienna.

Encouraged by success, Adam Opel launched a new product in 1886: He began to sell high-wheel bicycles, also known as penny-farthings.

The Republic of Colombia ( 1819 – 1830 ) or ‘ Gran Colombia ’ as it began to be called only after 1886, more or less corresponded in territory to the old colonial administrative district called the Viceroyalty of New Granada ( 1717 – 1819 ).

They began their work at Bell's Volta Laboratory in Washington, D. C., in 1879, and continued until they were granted basic patents in 1886 for recording in wax.

A transition period ( 1886 – 90 ) followed, during which politicians began recovering lost ground and some civilian participation in government occurred.

Initial interest in this problem began with Boltzmann in 1886, and independently was re-examined by Corbino in 1911.

By 1886 the Spaniards claimed the Caroline Islands which were part of the Manila-based Spanish East Indies and began to exert political authority.

In Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad, 118 U. S. 394 ( 1886 ), the reporter noted in the headnote to the opinion that the Chief Justice began oral argument by stating, " The court does not wish to hear argument on the question whether the provision in the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which forbids a State to deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws, applies to these corporations.

In 1885 and 1886 Marcel-Auguste Dieulafoy and Jane Dieulafoy began the first French excavations.

Friese-Greene was fascinated by the machine and in 1886 he began work with Rudge on enhancing it in order to project photographic plates.

Chicago-Kent College of Law began in 1886 with law clerks receiving tutorials from Appellate Judge Joseph M. Bailey in order to prepare for the newly instated Illinois Bar Examination.

In 1886, Jacques Siegfried bought Château Langeais and began a restoration program.

In 1886, the Southern Kansas Railway Company, a Santa Fe subsidiary, began to build a rail line into the Panhandle of Texas.

Railroads began to reach the county by 1886 when the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway subsidiary Southern Kansas Railway extended the line into Texas, making Panhandle City a railhead in 1888.

Construction on the first courthouse began in 1885 and was completed in 1886.

Construction began in spring 1886.

In late 1886, Fessenden began working directly for Thomas Edison at the inventor's new laboratory in West Orange, New Jersey.

The town began as a train stop in 1886 for the Southern Pacific Railroad to service the farms and ranches in the south Salinas Valley and to transport the goods to San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Lakeside began when the land that it is on, near Lindo Lake, was purchased by the El Cajon Valley Land Company in 1886.

Its history began on January 20, 1857, when John Brandon ( 1809 – 1886 ) arrived at Fort Brooke ( now Tampa ) from Mississippi with his first wife Martha ( 1813 – 1867 ) and six sons.

When Henry Plant's railroad to Tampa began service in 1886, Tampa took shipping away from Cedar Key, causing an economic decline in the area.

In 1886, local speculators began to fund exploration for petroleum in the area.

In 1886, in Paris, a small group of language teachers formed an association to encourage the use of phonetic notation in schools to help children acquire realistic pronunciations of foreign languages and also to aid in teaching reading to young children.

200pxFrédéric-Alfred-Pierre, comte de Falloux ( 7 May 1811 – 16 January 1886 ) was a French politician and author, famous for having given his name to two laws on education, favorizing private Catholic teaching.

He became Professor of History at the University of Ghent in 1886, a post he held until the end of his teaching career, in 1930.

At first the teaching duty of the Sadleirian professorship was limited to a course of lectures extending over one of the terms of the academic year ; but when the University was reformed about 1886, and part of the college funds applied to the better endowment of the University professors, the lectures were extended over two terms.

Summers ( that were free from teaching ) of 1886, 1888 and 1889 Molien spent in scientific centers of Germany.

In 1886, he was chosen to be a member of the first teaching faculty at Aitchison College, Lahore.

Hellqvist suffered from painful head aches which forced him to take a leave from his teaching at Königliche akademische Hochschule für die bildende Künste in 1886.

Schytte lived and taught in Vienna between 1886 and 1907 and spent the last two years of his life teaching in Berlin.

In 1886, another law insured secularisation of the teaching staff of the National Education.

It was established in the village of Choueifat, Lebanon, in 1886 by Tanios Saad and Louisa Procter, an Irish woman who was teaching in the area.

Cofounder Marc Bloch ( 1886 – 1944 ) was a quintessential modernist who studied at the elite École Normale Supérieure, and in Germany, serving as a professor at the University of Strasbourg until he was called to the Sorbonne in Paris in 1936 as professor of economic history.

In 1886, a monument to Alexander III was erected at the approximate location of his death in Kinghorn.

In 1886, Carnegie's younger brother Thomas died at age 43.

There was at the top of the Arc from 1882 to 1886, a monumental sculpture by Alexandre Falguière, " Le triomphe de la Révolution " ( the Triumph of the Revolution ), a chariot drawn by horses preparing " to crush Anarchy and Despotism ", that remained only four years up there before falling in ruins.

From 1886 dates the finding of Mycenaean sepulchres outside the Argolid, from which, and from the continuation of Tsountas's exploration of the buildings and lesser graves at Mycenae, a large treasure, independent of Schliemann's princely gift, has been gathered into the National Museum at Athens.

The result was a catastrophic split in the Liberal Party, and heavy defeat in the 1886 election at the hands of Lord Salisbury.

The first football match at which there were any gate receipts was when Fulham played against Minerva in the Middlesex Senior Cup, on 10 October 1886.

Pissarro is the only artist to have shown his work at all eight Paris Impressionist exhibitions, from 1874 to 1886.

Hilbert remained at the University of Königsberg as a professor from 1886 to 1895.

Originally located at the present location of Halifax City Hall, the college moved in 1886 to Carleton campus and spread gradually to occupy the Studley campus.

Atchison died on January 26, 1886, at the age of 78.

The ship, named Destructor ( literally Destroyer ), was laid down at the end of the year, launched in 1886, and commissioned in 1887.

Following academic advice, two years later in 1886 Husserl followed Carl Stumpf, a former student of Brentano, to the University of Halle, seeking to obtain his Habilitation which would qualify him to teach at the university level.

In 1886, at the age of 30, Kraepelin was named professor of psychiatry at the University of Dorpat ( today the University of Tartu ) in what is today Estonia ( see Burgmair et al., Vol IV ).

In 1886, teams that competed at the Winter Carnival organized the Amateur Hockey Association of Canada ( AHAC ) league and played a regular season composed of " challenges " to the existing champion.

* 1886 – King Ludwig II of Bavaria is found dead in Lake Starnberg south of Munich at 11: 30 PM.

* 1886 – Haymarket Square Riot: A bomb is thrown at policemen trying to break up a labor rally in Chicago, Illinois, United States, killing eight and wounding 60.

* By Nile and Tigris, a narrative of journeys in Egypt and Mesopotamia on behalf of the British museum between the years 1886 and 1913, by Sir E. A. Wallis Budge, 1920 ( a searchable facsimile at the University of Georgia Libraries ; DjVu & layered PDF format )

After completing his clinical education and habilitation at the Charité in Berlin in 1886, Ehrlich left Charité employment and traveled to Egypt and other countries in 1888 and 1889, one reason being to cure a case of tuberculosis, with which he had become infected in the laboratory.

The census was the Society's first attempt at a statistical evaluation of paranormal phenomena, and the resulting publication in 1886, Phantasms of the Living is still widely referenced in parapsychological literature today.

Eugenio and the other children made their first communion at this church and Eugenio served there as an altar boy from 1886.